Projects

Projects

TOUCH SYMPOSIUM

The discourse around touch and the tactile has been growing in recent years. Within music, this conversation is mainly dominated by the integration of haptics with sound technology and the way in which music ‘touches’ us emotionally. This symposium aims to explore the deeply embodied experience that is hearing and listening and add to this ever growing field of practice and research. Composers and sound artists, alongside a ceramicist, a landscape architect and a surgeon, will consider this tactile experience from an open perspective, including the political, social, and aesthetic.

THE SINGING BRIDGE

The Singing Bridge, by Claudia Molitor, is a musical response to Waterloo Bridge and its history as well as the wider concept of ‘the bridge’: a structure which is shaped by the landscape it crosses and which simultaneously tames this landscape, to make its terrain navigable for us.

MAKING ONE LEAF TRANSPARENT AND THEN ANOTHER

making one leaf transparent and then another, by Newton Armstrong, is concerned with an investigation into the unique spectromorphological characteristics of distinctive piano sonorities, and with the development of structuring process that follow from the 'interiors' of sonic events.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT

Hidden in Plain Sight, by Aaron Einbond, is a site-specific ambient chamber opera which was performed in the streets of Aix-en-Provence.

WALLS ON WALLS

Walls on Walls, by Laurie Nouchka and Tullis Rennie, celebrates the rich history and evolving identity of specific communities and their relationships with their local environment. The artistic collaboration creates individual works which reflect how the old and the new co-exist in the neighbourhoods we live and work.

SONORAMA

Sonorama, by Claudia Molitor, is an audio work for the train journey between London St Pancras and Margate, which includes new compositions, spoken word and archival sounds relating to different points, areas and histories of the line. Sonorama is downloadable as an App.

CARIOCA SOUND STORIES

Carioca Sound Stories, by Tullis Rennie, interweaves field recordings, memories and music collected during April and May 2014, which were spent living in Rio de Janeiro and working in the Complexo da Maré favela. A simultaneous translation of what it was like to be there and thoughts occurring with hindsight, giving an outsider’s perspective from deep inside the city.

MORRIñA

Morriña, by Miguel Mera (compose/director), with Bruno Mathez (Filmmaker) and Tony Thatcher (Choreography) isan audiovisual dance piece that explores relationships between music and bodily movement, examines how communities hold onto perceptions of particular identities, and considers how memory and nostalgia are distorted over time.